Here are tropes focusing on characters intimidating others with threats of violent harm to coerce them into doing their bidding or when someone did something they don't like. Now start looking at these tropes or someone will be sent to whoop yo' ass!
Compare Violence Tropes, A Tortured Index, and Abuse Tropes. See also Anger Tropes.
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- Abusive Advertising: Buy our products or else!
- Aggressive Negotiations
- And Now You Must Marry Me
- And Your Little Dog, Too!: Next time you wrong me, it'll be your beloved who gets it!
- Anger Born of Worry: Don't you ever make me worry like that again or it'll be me who endangers you next time!
- Angry Fist-Shake: If I'm shaking my fist at you, that means you've seriously pissed me off!
- Appeal to Force: Agree with my viewpoint or I'll hurt you!
- Audit Threat: As a government official, I order you to tell us what we want to know or else we'll have to tax you!
- Badass Boast: Now you're in trouble, because I'M here to beat your ass down into oblivion!
- Badass Creed
- Bad Review Threat: You better do what I want or I'll give a review about how awful your company is!
- Battle Cry: FOR TVTROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOPES!!
- Big Brother Instinct: You harm one hair on my sibling's head and I'll gut you like a fish!
- Blackmail: I know your secret, so you better do as I tell you or I'll let your little secret out!
- "Blackmail" Is Such an Ugly Word: And don't you dare call what I'm doing "blackmail", because I'm merely keeping you in your place!
- Break-In Threat: Intimidating/threatening a character by breaking into their abode and deliberately leaving evidence of the break-in.
- Breath-Holding Brat: Either you give me what I want or I'll hold my breath and suffocate!
- Broken-Window Warning: Breaking someone's window as a threat, or throwing a warning message tied to a brick through someone's window.
- Buy or Get Lost: If you're not going to buy anything, leave. Otherwise there's going to be trouble...
- Collective Death Glare: An entire group glares at someone for doing/saying something dumb.
- Counting to Three: I'll count to three for you to stop pissing me off! 1... 2... 2 and a half...
- Casting Couch: Have sex with me, or you don't get the part.
- Cut His Heart Out with a Spoon: I'm going to do something really bizarre to you!
- Dark Shepherd: You better behave yourself or you're in for a world of consequences (particularly of the fire and brimstone kind)!
- Dead Animal Warning: Let this dead animal on your porch be a warning that I'm not bluffing about harming you!
- Deadly Euphemism: Telling you that I was going to "kill you" wouldn't be very polite, instead I'll just say that I'm "giving you the treatment".
- Death Glare: See me staring daggers at you? That means you better shut your mouth before I shut it for you!
- Disproportionate Retribution: How dare you upset me with a minor mistake?! I will get my vengeance on you for that!
- Don't Make Me Destroy You: I'm warning you! I don't want to have to do this, but if you don't stop what you're doing, I'll have to hurt you!
- The Easy Way or the Hard Way: You got two options, we can either settle this calmly or I'll have do something more drastic to you!
- Empty Cop Threat: Withholding information from a police officer? That's not acceptable! Tell me what you know or you're under arrest!
- Eye Am Watching You: So don't try to piss me off or I'm coming for you!
- False Reassurance: Don't worry, I'm not going to kill you. I'm going to make you suffer!
- Forgiven, but Not Forgotten: Sure I forgive you, but if you ever repeat that mistake again, there is gonna be hell to pay!
- Freudian Threat: If you keep making trouble, I'll tear off your "equipment"!
- Give Me a Reason: I don't need a good reason why I should hurt you! As soon as I find some excuse to hurt you, you're dead meat!
- Go Through Me: You wanna hurt my loved ones? You'll have to face me first!
- Gunboat Diplomacy
- Happiness Is Mandatory: Smile and be happy or you're dead meat!
- Hidden Heart of Gold: Tell anybody that I'm actually nice and I'll see to it you never see the light of day again!
- High-Altitude Interrogation: Tell me what I want to know or I'll throw you off this high ground!
- Hit You So Hard, Your X Will Feel It!: You're gonna hurt so bad that someone close to you will feel the pain once I'm done with you!
- Homework Slave: Hey, loser! Do my homework assignment, or I'll turn you into hamburger casserole during gym class!
- Hostage for MacGuffin: If you care at all about your friend's life, you WILL hand over the item I'm looking for!
- How Dare You Die on Me!: You better not die or I'll never forgive you!
- I'd Tell You, but Then I'd Have to Kill You: You want to know my big secret? Ok but you'll have to die afterwards. I'm not joking by the way...
- If I Can't Have You…: You don't return my love? I'm gonna kill you for that!
- If I Wanted You Dead...: If I was going to kill you, I would have by now. Better get moving before I actually DECIDE to kill you!
- If You Ever Do Anything to Hurt Her...: You're in for some serious pain should you hurt my loved one!
- I Have Your Wife: Do as I say or your beloved gets it!
- I'll Kill You!: Exactly What It Says on the Tin! So don't you even think of doing me any wrong!
- Implied Death Threat: Don't get in my way again, unless you want me to send you to join the choir invisible.
- I'm Your Worst Nightmare
- Ineffectual Death Threats: You cross me and I will poke you with a stick.
- In the Name of the Moon: Beware my catch phrase, that's a sign that I mean business!
- Is That a Threat?: Am I threatening you? Of course I am!
- I Will Punish Your Friend for Your Failure: Should you fail me, it'll be your loved one who gets hurt!
- I Will Show You X!: You want mercy? I'll give you "mercy"! I'll give you lots of "mercy"!
- Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Alright buddy, talk! Tell me what I want to know or you're in for some Cold-Blooded Torture!
- Mandatory Motherhood: Babies Make Everything Better and Not Wanting Kids Is Weird, so you better get busy and make some or you'll be so sorry!
- Make an Example of Them: You all WILL follow my rules unless you want to end up like the poor fools who last defied me!
- My Name Is Inigo Montoya: What better way to let you know that you're in trouble then by me telling you exactly who you're dealing with!
- An Offer You Can't Refuse: You don't have a choice here! Either accept my demand or it's curtains for you!
- Ordered Apology: You better apologize to me or I'll beat one out of you!
- Painless Death for a Price: Tell me what I want to know, and I'll make your death quick and easy!
- Paranoia Gambit
- Pre-Asskicking One-Liner
- Prepare to Die: ...because I'm going to kill you!
- Prove I Am Not Bluffing: I am willing to make good on my threat to prove my point. So unless you give me what I want, DO. NOT. PUSH. ME. AGAIN.
- Put Down Your Gun and Step Away: Drop your weapons unless you want me to kill your friend!
- Scare 'Em Straight: If you don't behave like a good boy/girl, then bad, BAD things will befall you!
- Scarpia Ultimatum: Have sex with me or I'll kill your friends.
- See You in Hell: When I die, I'll go to hell and wait for you there!
- Shame If Something Happened: It would be a shame if something horrible happen to you if you cross me.
- Shield Banging: I'll whack my shield with my weapon as a way of demonstrating the ability of both.
- Shotgun Wedding: You WILL marry my daughter since you knocked her up or you'll get hurt!
- Stop, or I Will Shoot!: Don't move or I'll pull the trigger on you!
- Stop, or I Shoot Myself!: Don't move or I'll pull the trigger on me!
- Strongly Worded Letter: I'm so filled with righteous indignation that I'm going to make an entirely futile and symbolic gesture to express it!
- Sword of Damocles
- Taking You with Me: If I die, I'll make sure you die too.
- That Wasn't a Request: You should just give up while you still can. By "should" I mean you WILL give up or else!
- This Is Unforgivable!: You've gone too far this time... I'll never forgive you!
- Threat Backfire: I'm gonna break every bone in your body! Why the hell are you smiling?
- Threatening Mediator: You two either settle your childish fighting or I'll do it myself! And it's NOT gonna be pretty.
- Throat-Slitting Gesture: You do what I want you to do or... Kttcch!
- To the Pain: I know hundreds of ways to torture you, and I'm going to describe every single one until you crack!
- Trouble Entendre
- Vehicular Kidnapping
- [Verb] This!
- The Villain Knows Where You Live: I know where you live so there's no sense in hiding from me!
- Villainous Face Hold: I'll grab your face to show you I can do anything to you and you're powerless to stop me.
- Violently Protective Girlfriend: I'll break the necks of anyone who hurts my boyfriend!
- Warning Mistaken for Threat: I'm not threatening you, I'm warning you!
- Weapon for Intimidation: I'll use this weapon to kill you, even though I hardly use it!
- We Have Ways of Making You Talk: If you won't tell me what I want to know, I'll just have to torment you until you sing like a canary!
- We Will Meet Again: You may have defeated me, but the next time we cross paths, you will be on life support!
- Whispered Threat: I'm going to make a comment to you so threatening, it can only be whispered in your ear.
- With Us or Against Us: Sorry but there will be no neutrality here, you're gonna either side with us or with them!
- Join or Die: In this case, you should join US, the correct side, or you can kiss your ass goodbye!
- You Have Failed Me: Exactly What It Says on the Tin. And for that, the punishment is death.
- You Have No Chance to Survive
- You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Good job... You've done well, and I'm very pleased. What a shame I'll have to kill you now as your reward, though.
- You Killed My Father: You killed someone I loved! I'm gonna kick your ass as payment!
- You Leave Him Alone!: You keep away from them! Face off against me instead!
- You Monster!: You've proven to be an irredeemable inhuman beast, and I'm gonna make you pay for what you did!
- You Wouldn't Like Me When I'm Angry!: Self-explanatory. When you piss me off, it's gonna be hell on earth for you!
- You're Insane!: Exactly What It Says on the Tin. And I'm putting a stop to you and your madness right now!
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